When it comes to identifying raptors on the wing – or for that matter most any North American bird in the midst of more or less any other activity – there are few who can rival Pete Dunne in accuracy. His Hawks in Flight; The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors
, written with David Sibley and Clay Sutton, has become veritably canonical for bird watchers.
Therefore when rumors leaked out last year at the Cape May Fall Festival of a new book about raptors by him being in the works, everyone present became immediately eager to see its release. Fortunately, the wait wasn’t long, as Birds of Prey; Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America, co-authored with Kevin Karlson, was published at the end of this past April by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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